Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt snapshot failing on one VM

On 04/23/2014 09:57 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Steve Dainard wrote: > > I have other VM's with the same amount of snapshots without this problem. >> No conclusion jumping going on. More interested in what the best practice >> is for VM's that accumulate snapshots over time. >> > > For some real world context, we seem to accumulate snapshots > using our local approach, and are not that focused on, or > attentive about removing them. The 'highwater mark' of 39, on > a machine that has been around since it was provisioned: > 2010-01-05 > > [root@xxx backups]# ./count-snapshots.sh | sort -n | tail -3 > 38 vm_64099 > 38 vm_98036 > 39 vm_06359 > > Accumulating large numbers of snapshots seems more the > function of pets, than ephemeral 'cattle' > > I wrote the first paragraph without looking up the 'owners' of > the images. As I dereference the VM id's, all of the top ten > in that list turn out to be mailservers, radius servers, name > servers, and such, where the business unit owners chose not > (or neglect) to 'winnow' their herd. There are no ephemeral > use units in the top ten > > -- Russ herrold > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > please note there is a recommended limit of having no more than 500 snapshots per block storage domain due to some LVM performance issues with high number of LVs. each disk/snapshot is an LV. NFS doesn't have this limitation.